Dr. Mary Malone

OMG, I nearly forgot the last main character- Mary!

She has stumbled in to a different world where creatures called mulefa are the intelligent race. Sofar she has been wlecomes into their society and learns many things, especially about Dust. Dust is like the substance that makes us smart and mature and is not able to be seen through our eyes. Mary, however, develops a glass that lets her see Dust, and gives us the name of the story, the Amber Spyglass.

I really like the mulefa; they have an entire new language that Mary learns and a society at least as modern as ours. There's one major difference though- they have four legs in a diamond shape in stead of square, like our animals, and they have just trunks like elephats to manuvre things, even if they do so with extreme dexterity. They use wheels made of seed pods to move faster by putting one if the front leg and one in the back, and then pushing, steering, and balancing with the other two.

I find this most interesting because I'll never see something like this, but it is possible that somewhere they exist on another planet somewhere. I also love how authors can come up with whole other worlds and beings and make them sound real. This is what I admire most in books and love to read about the subject the most. If I could do this as well as some of these people, I would do it tooand make it my job and way of living.

Also, it shows that we could have evolved in so many different ways really, and this is just how it happened. We might have been diamond, trunked people, or some other form no one has thought of yet. And for all you people who are like, but we didn't evolve like that, so stop speculating and do some real work, too bad. This isn't to be real life, here and now or whatever, this is for seeing more theoretically on why we evolved like this, and how it all workd\ed out to be like this. So ha.

Mary is only character who I think is like me, you know, wanting to know everything, but taking forever to real know what is happening. Also she's very determined to find anwsers, and not give up on everything she does just because other people don't believe in what she's doing and trying to discourage her. Or rather, in this case, kill her.

Kill because of the stupid Magisterium, who are always in everyone's business and telling people what to do. Really kind of like every other religion in the world, only they make you believe or kill you. Sigh, sigh, more sighing. Their latest projects include making all the worlds believe what they do, killing Lyra to stop her from encountering temptation, and killing Mary, who they believe is the one bringing temptation to Lyra. And of course, Getting the subtle knife so they can complete objective #1. However, they don't remember to watch out for Asriel's forces, giant bears (Iorek), and a knife that lets people travel between worlds (duh).

Well, later, ciao, whatever,

Carli